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The golf legend, Annika Sorestam, will return to the field in the American championship of the century, and is doing more than just trying to win the celebrity golf tournament.
Sorestam, who won 72 LPGA Tour tournaments, including 10 students, during his illustrious career, will create awareness about the Annika Foundation while competing in Edgewood Tahoe Golf Club near Lake Tahoe next month.
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Annika Sorestam (Isaiah Vázquez/Clarksson Creative/Getty Images)
The base aims to use golf to support young women worldwide.
“My foundation has been almost 20 years old, and it is about providing game opportunities and empowering and advancing young women through sport,” Sorestam told Pak Gazette Digital in a recent interview. “Different initiatives, tournament initiatives, resources, tutoring, scholarship, etc., so we have made some clinics in the area, we invite girls to participate, it has been great.
“We have about 1,000 girls every year, and we have returned almost $ 10 million to the golf of the girls. Wherever I go, I press the base and it has been great to make the young women pick up a club or continue playing.”
Sorestam said he hopes to play in the tournament every year.
She was the finalist of former NHL star Jeremy Roenick in 2014 when former NFL Mark Rypien field marshal won the tournament for the second time.
Condoleezza Rice, Left, and Annika Sorestam (Kyle Terada-Imagn images)
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“Every year I am excited. I try every year. These guys become increasingly difficult to win, but it is the highlight, it is certainly a climax of the summer,” Sorestam said. “Tahoe at that time of the year, the tournament, the atmosphere and everything related to the players, is a great event. So having family and friends there, many reasons for you to like.”
Mardy Fish, Stephen Curry, Tony Romo and Vinny del Negro have been some of the most recent winners in the tournament.
Sorestam said “it is surprising” how good some of the athletes who are not professional golfers in the game are.
“Well, you know, many of them have half of my age, twice my size. They are incredible athletes. What can I say now that I have become accustomed,” he said. “But at first, I thought, Whoa, you know. But it’s surprising how well they are. They play much more than me. They hit him so far, not always straight, but many of them do.
“In the end, it makes it very exciting, but to add some pressure, I always tell my husband, I say: ‘Mike, I don’t think I can throw myself into a football field or any basketball court and start shooting triples.’ I only think they are incredible.”
Annika Sorestam (Tom R. Smedes / Special A RGJ / USA Today Network)
The festivities of the American century championship are held from July 9 to 13.
The tournament will also raise money for local and national beneficial organizations. The event is a 54 holes Stableford format in which the golfers won points for each hole depending on the score along. The golfer who achieves the greatest number of points wins.
